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Environmental health disparities found in L.A. | Los Angeles Times

A new data tool from researchers at UCLA highlights significant environmental health disparities between Latino and white neighborhoods in L.A., providing critical insights amid escalating public health concerns linked to the places where climate change and the Trump administration’s recent immigration policy actions intersect. The Latino Climate and Health Dashboard, developed by UCLA’s Latino Policy and Politics Institute with support from the California Wellness Foundation, consolidates county-specific data on how Latino communities disproportionately suffer from extreme heat and air pollution. (UCLA’s Arturo Vargas Bustamante was quoted.) 

Events in Iran latest incident in 7 decades of turbulent history | KABC-TV

“‘Ok, look, we will not pursue nuclear weapons anymore if we can get rid of the sanctions,’ is a bargaining position for the Iranians. What the Americas want, of course, is they want to make sure Iran doesn’t have a nuclear weapon,” [UCLA’s James] Gelvin said. (Also: UCLA’s Dalia Dassa Kaye was interviewed by KTLA-TV and UCLA’s Benjamin Radd was interviewed by KTTV-TV – approx. 1:15 mark). 

Conflict with Iran is fueling Trump’s immigration agenda | Los Angeles Times

Hiroshi Motomura, a UCLA law professor who advised the Obama-Biden transition team on immigration policy, said that trade-off means “the situation with Iran and Trump’s immigration policy are very closely intertwined.” 

Newsom, Democrats reach California budget deal | Los Angeles Times

Financial analysts at UCLA predict that the state economy is expected to slow in the months ahead due to the effects of Trump’s tariff policy and immigration raids on construction, hospitality, agriculture and other key sectors. 

The drug that could revolutionize the fight against HIV | The New Yorker

“We have not seen evidence of the bigger resources being devoted and the political will to do what needs to be done to get any of these PrEP options into the populations that need it the most,” says Raphael Landovitz, an H.I.V./AIDS researcher at the University of California, Los Angeles, who has helped run other PrEP studies. “Everything we have seen is incremental. And so I fear that this is going to be yet another incremental improvement.”